Archaeological place of social memory

The article characterizes the determinants of the mobilizing potential of archaeological sources and considers the role of archeology in the formation of social memory. The determinants of mobilizing potential archaeological sources; characterized the role of archeology in the formation of social memory. From the point of view of social reality construction, the identification of archaeological sources of a social organism and the establishment of their direct link with a modern community are of great importance. An indicative tool inherent to pseudoscientific works was monism, expressed in the identification of linguistic, cultural, racial, genetic phenomena with archaeological sources, and allowing to construct arbitrary sociological reconstructions. Conventionality of archaeological places of social memory is due to the fact that historical events, for which there is no national consensus, are always closely related to the current political context, and their conflicts will fade away with time. Archaeological sources may only be a thing, which facilitates their perception. Their historical and social significance seems obvious and compelling. Materiality determines the possibility of routinization of archaeological sites of social memory. Another feature of archaeological sites simplifies their routiniza-tion as places of social memory: they tend to be geographically referenced and clearly inscribed in the historical and cultural landscape. Thus, archaeological sites of social memory due to their ability to objectify social phenomena, regularity, prestige, conventionality and triviality allow to keep the subject in a political community gravity field with particular ideological force. This means that the historical interpretation of archeology can not be considered outside the socio-political context. As the current methodology does not make rigid boundaries between historical consciousness and social memory, problems of pseudoscience are inevitably relevant. Inability to obtain refined historical knowledge makes archaeologists address the issues of professional ethics in recent years.

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